page_title: Transportation in Omaha
section_title: Railroads
hierarchical_section_title: Transportation in Omaha / Pioneer period / Railroads
caption_attribution_description: George Francis Train CALL NUMBER: LC-BH82- 4749 A-2 &lt;P&amp;P&gt;[P&amp;P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-cwpbh-01724 (b&amp;w copy scan) No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 negative&#160;: glass, wet collodion. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1855 and 1865] NOTES: Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). FORMAT: Portrait photographs 1850-1870. Glass negatives 1850-1870. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&amp;w scan) cwpbh 01724 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.01724
context_page_description: Transportation in Omaha, Nebraska, includes most major modes, such as pedestrian, bicycle, automobile, bus, train and airplane. While early transportation consisted of ferries, stagecoaches, steamboats, street railroads, and railroads, the city's transportation systems have evolved to include the Interstate Highway System, parklike boulevards and a variety of bicycle and pedestrian trails. The historic head of several important emigrant trails and the First Transcontinental Railroad, its center as a national transportation hub earned Omaha the nickname "Gate City of the West" as early as the 1860s.
  During a tumultuous pioneer period characterized by its centrality in proximity to the Western United States, transportation in Omaha demanded the construction of massive warehouses where frontier settlers could stock up and communities west of Omaha got food and supplies to build themselves with. Riverboats and stagecoaches jammed the riverside city with a variety of newcomers, prospectors and shady characters. Early Omaha also landed the Union Pacific Railroad headquarters, leading to its important place in national railroad lore.
context_section_description: In 1863, ground was broke near Miller's Landing on the Missouri River for the First Transcontinental Railroad. Along with local financier Edward Creighton, George Francis Train was the promoter who was mostly responsible for the city landing the railroad. He was made rich from its convenient placement near land that he owned (near Deer Park. The Union Pacific Railroad has been headquartered in Omaha since its inception in 1867. In 1872, Union Pacific opened the first [railroad] bridge across the Missouri to Omaha.
caption: George Francis Train, Omaha promoter and land owner.
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